Product Engineer, Mobile Mapping, Braunschweig, Germany

Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com

What You Will Do
Embark on an exciting journey as a Product/ion Engineer, driving the evolution, efficiency, and quality of manufacturing processes. Collaborate with design engineering to introduce new products and engage with suppliers to ensure top-tier selections. Nurture partnerships with the quality team to establish superior methodologies. Gauge manufacturing costs, set time standards, and guide tooling and process enhancements for both new and existing product lines. 

• Drive daily operations of current products, continuously enhancing cost-effectiveness through lean manufacturing practices
• Coordinates transition of new products and product enhancements from concept through the manufacturing process to a finished product
• Develops test plans and procedures dealing with material acquisition and substitution problems, as well as technical issues impacting shipments.  
• Analyzes manufacturing and test defect data and trends to define root cause and implement corrective actions
• Ensures product development plan is complete and properly implemented, ensuring manufacturing resources are properly directed during the entire product life cycle
• Ensures plans and documentation are in place for test, assembly, training, process, materials transition and manufacturability
• Interfaces with quality to establish quality methods and metrics
• Estimates manufacturing cost, determines time standards, and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines
• Interfaces with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products. Interfaces with purchasing in the selection/qualification of suppliers

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Systems, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with a general technical background in electronics and mechanical manufacturing methods.
• Experience with production processes, assembly processes, test systems, control software, and electronics processes.
• Understanding of general manufacturing processes and systems (inventory control, scheduling, new model development, and quality).
• Demonstrable experience in electronic manufacturing/test environment.
• Ability to analyze production processes and systems, and identify concerns.
• Fluent in English and German and able to work in both of the languages daily.

About the Trimble Operations Product Engineering Division
The Product Engineering team has members all over the world. The team is responsible for seeing that systems are created for producing the designs that have been created by engineering. Additionally, the team is responsible for ensuring that the product is consistently and reliably produced. Finally, the team is responsible for the safe delivery to the distribution centers.

Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment
We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.